Re: NVIDIA and 2.6.4?

From: venom
Date: Sat Mar 13 2004 - 09:36:43 EST



on x86 all nvidia driver will compile and run with 2.6 kernels using nimion
patches.

nvidia driver on 2.6.4 won't run if you compile the kernel with
-mregparm=3 (CONFIG_REGPARM enabled). Then you will get the most wonderfull oops
of your life.

bests
Luigi


On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, Nerijus Baliunas wrote:

> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 15:07:03 +0200 (EET)
> From: Nerijus Baliunas <nerijus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Robert L. Harris <Robert.L.Harris@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: NVIDIA and 2.6.4?
>
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 07:31:00 -0500 "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > And that's just for starters. Does anyone know if there's a way to get
> > this to compile cleanly or is it SoL until a new driver is released
> > (running 1.0.4191 currently).
>
> At least for x86 the latest driver (1.0-5336) is compatible with 2.6.x
> (didn't test on 2.6.4 though).
>
> Regards,
> Nerijus
>
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